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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Otto Hintze (August 27, 1861 – April 25, 1940) was a German historian of public administration. He was Professor of a Political, Constitutional, Administrative and Economic History at the University of Berlin. Hintze was born in the small town of Pyritz (Pyrzyce) in the Province of Pomerania, the son of a civil servant. From 1878 to 1879, Hintze studied history, philosophy and philology in Greifswald. Here he joined the fraternity Germania. Hintze came to Berlin in 1880, and soon obtained a doctorate under Julius Weizsäcker with a dissertation on Medieval History in 1884.